DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. See Table.).

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But with Ministers yet to go on the record with their detailed policy plans and several departments said to be at loggerheads over key parts of the new programme, environmental groups remain fearful that the UK's green policy framework is about to fundamentally weakened. Far from it.

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Government Soil Agriculture Policy 101

Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. According to Emily Williams, a Ph.D.

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Soil Health Pollution Climate change 98

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

Building Energy Monitoring 98

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Sustainability 98

AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

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Organic Law Policy Health 36

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. According to the Pesticides Action Network, over a third of Bayer’s sales derive from products that are highly hazardous to the environment, animal or human health.

Agriculture 90

Agriculture Health Europe Biodiversity 90

Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Environmental laws and government strategy and policy have 'not yet proved successful' in slowing down, halting or reversing biodiversity decline, new regulatory body warns. Turning this round will certainly not be easy," she said.

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Government Biodiversity Policy Law 44

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 20, 2021

Meanwhile, Shell is responsible for the spill of over two million barrels of oil in Ogoniland , Nigeria, contaminating soils and aquatic systems which have led to food insecurity, poverty, and health complications. For an institution of learning, the university’s caginess about its financial ties comes across as deeply cynical.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

WWF and ClientEarth lodge complaint with the Office for Environmental Protection over Environment Agency's failure to impose sanctions on farmers who breach pollution laws. But despite the widespread breaches of environmental laws, just only one civil sanction was applied. But it's not enough for regulations to simply exist.

Pollution 36

Pollution Law Agriculture Government 36

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What public policies are needed?

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Pollution Health Politics Policy 473

Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To its credit, what Defra has delivered this week is one of the most comprehensive and holistic environmental policy documents from any UK government to date. The statement itself stresses that the environmental principles are "not rules and cannot dictate policy decisions".

Government 40

Government Biodiversity Policy Agriculture 40

Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The UK government must focus on strengthening the detail and delivery of its flagship Net Zero Strategy during a "crucial" year ahead for climate action, with major work particularly needed to fill in policy gaps and uncertainties surrounding taxation, trade, adaptation and agriculture.

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Demand COP Government Policy 62

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We are wrecking our world - the one place we call home - risking our health security and survival," she said. The NGO argued that such a drastic reversal would require reforms to the economic system to acknowledge - and fairly account for - the natural capital that supports and underpins economic prosperity.

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Resilience Biodiversity North America Climate change 99

GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an "enterprise à mission," a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. That's why Danone has signed the green recovery appeal at the European level, because we believe the transformation and the renegotiation of the agriculture policy is instrumental to that.".

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Biodiversity Agriculture Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring 448

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They have a mission that includes some aspects of sustainability and often have sustainability programs, policies and initiatives that require professionals to help implement and manage them. This table summarizes the 4 basic types of roles a company may have related to sustainability: Chief Sustainability Officer. Sustainability Engineer.

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Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 148

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Nature magazine chimed in, saying that we’re hitting “ climate tipping points ” and the bank HSBC estimated trillions of dollars in potential health costs. People can debate whether policy proposals like these are unrealistic , but the scale of the thinking is welcome, and it’s pushing the debate. People are taking notice.

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Sustainability Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Climate change 78

Front And Centered

JUNE 20, 2020

Advocacy by Front and Centered, our members, and allies helped create this Task Force during the 2019 Legislative Session in order to develop strategies that address environmental health disparities with guidance from the communities most impacted by pollution. Prioritizing Investments in Impacted Communities.

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Health Law Policy Investment 111

Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Environment Secretary George Eustice said: "If we want to realise the aspiration set out in Professor Dasgupta's landmark Review to rebalance humanity's relationship with nature, then we need policies that will both protect and enhance the supply of our natural assets.

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Biodiversity Climate change Policy Government 33

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company offer an explicit policy for transgender healthcare coverage? Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? ” Where is the B Corp movement today?

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 78

Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

They have a mission that includes some aspects of sustainability and often have sustainability programs, policies and initiatives that require professionals to help implement and manage them. This table summarizes the 4 basic types of roles a company may have related to sustainability: Chief Sustainability Officer. Sustainability Engineer.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 78

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. The number of companies voluntarily reporting on environmental risk is rapidly increasing and regulations making this type of disclosure mandatory are beginning to be written into law. Insight Engines.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 59

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

There’s no shortage of sustainable outcome gaps that need bridging, and market solutions are preferable to state and policy mandates in many of these cases. Sustainable agriculture means farming and grazing in a way that doesn’t work the soil to death, or deforest en masse to make way for croplands. Sustainable Agriculture.

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Startups Waste Waste Soil 148

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode. A senior policy advisor for Ryan told the scheduler to leave Zenith’s name out of the subject headline in emails related to the event.

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Government Fossil fuels Energy Energy 96

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The non-profit GRAIN, which advocates for small-scale farming, and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a US-based sustainable farming research organisation, have however found that meat giants JBS , Tyson Foods , Danish Crown , and Vion have all, at one time or another, hugely under-reported their annual emissions.

Pollution 98

Pollution Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 98

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

Business Green

JULY 15, 2020

Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an ‘entreprise à mission', a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. The pioneering governance structure will see the food giant officially entrench environmental, social, and societal objectives into its bylaws, alongside more typical profit goals.

Biodiversity 96

Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 96

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. What public policies are needed? A variety of policies can be applied to reduce environmental justice inequities. Integrating environmental justice with climate change policies.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

After a dispiriting stint in corporate law, she turned to full-time environmentalism, joining Dogwood Alliance in 1997 and becoming its executive director at the age of 30. “I It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests.

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Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 97

Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

The UK will also still be bound by EU law and fall under the jurisdiction of the EU Court of Justice, albeit now without any say on those laws are developed and enforced, with British MEPs and judges having left Brussels and Luxembourg respectively this week. How will they be enforced and governed?

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Government Policy Agriculture Law 41

AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2020

Danone’s Eric Soubeiran: ‘The food system is broken’ Cecilia Keating Mon, 07/20/2020 – 00:30 Earlier this year, Danone became the first listed company to become an “enterprise à mission,” a new type of corporation created by a 2019 French law. “You showed evidence that finance can change the world.

Biodiversity 28

Biodiversity Agriculture Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability 28

Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We should remember though that rivers have never been maintained for human health but for wildlife and nature. The Environment Agency is also examining the new risks now posed to our waters, and to human and animal health, by so called forever chemicals, or PFAS (perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances).

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Climate change 31

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. Policy & Politics. Contributors. Judy Fahys.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Pollution 540

Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Today, the government spends about $6 billion every year on the problem, but all that money has not made a detectable difference in the dead zone, the regular algae blooms in Lake Erie, and the health risks posed by fertilizer. A cover crop is simply something grown over the winter, when fields are usually bare. Scott Olson / Getty Images.

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Soil Pollution Government Agriculture 144

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JANUARY 15, 2020

With the Trump administration continuing to tear apart federal climate and clean energy standards, it’s already clear that in 2020, it’s up to states and cities to once again lead America on policies that are good for our environment and our economy. and seizing the economic opportunities that come with it. In Michigan , legislators and Gov.

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Energy Energy Electric vehicle Transportation 78

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

As the North American program manager for the Climate Group’s EV100 program, Badalian works to get large companies to commit to 100 percent electric mobility by 2030, then helps them replace global fleets with electric vehicles, deploy charging stations and affect government policy. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 528

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban. The state sets no phosphorus cap for most farms.

Agriculture 125

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 125

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Nevertheless, lawyers are building cases on the oil industry’s own documents , seeking to echo the success of a previous generation of lawsuits against tobacco companies for covering up the health risks of smoking. based Center for International Environmental Law has reported.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative 98